How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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I've been changing my setup and I notice my bluetooth takes longer to be ready.
Now this could be OCD-ish but I remember it being faster before.

So whats a bad/normal/good boot time ?
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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My mister is always ready by the time the CRT TV is turned on. (10 secs?)
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It boots faster than I can sit down.
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After some experimentation:
* when I remove the WIFI-dongle its faster
* when I plug my BT-dongle in in USB5 instead of USB1 its significantly faster (5+ secs)

Can someone shed a light on this ?
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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I have a USB drive in it that can take a few seconds to be ready and it usually takes 15-20 seconds for networking to connect, but from power on to menu is only a couple seconds. It's fast enough that when I want to change games I just hit the reset button, the same as I would have on an old console.
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the turn on time to the mister menu for me is near instant, i'm quite amazed on how fast that thing actually boots to the core menu.
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Bas wrote: Fri Jun 17, 2022 5:12 pm It boots faster than I can sit down.
Yeah I have mine on an independent power bar and by the time I've flopped back down it's good to go
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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From switching on at the power my times are:

0 seconds to see static
6 seconds until I see the mister menu
15 seconds until wifi becomes active
22 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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daveo wrote: Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:04 am From switching on at the power my times are:

0 seconds to see static
6 seconds until I see the mister menu
15 seconds until wifi becomes active
22 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
Excellent post, I recorded mine to see how it holds up

This was when I noticed it being slow:
  • 00 seconds to see static
  • 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
  • 31 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
  • 120+ seconds until wifi becomes active
After moving the dongles around
  • 00 seconds to see static
  • 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
  • 15 seconds until wifi becomes active
  • 19 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
This is without the WIFI-dongle (consistent):
  • 00 seconds to see static
  • 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
  • 10 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
This is so much better when you use Bluetooth controllers :D
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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For me it is, after power-on:

1 second before static
8 seconds before MiSTer menu

No wifi or BT installed, fitted with an analogue IO board, 128GB memory and booting from an SD card.
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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Nice paul :D try the latest update, you could shave off another second

It seems to also differ based on what version of MiSTer/Linux you are running.
But I updated yesterday and its even faster now:

This is without the WIFI-dongle (consistent):
00 seconds to see static
07 seconds until I see the mister menu with blueooth ready

Wow, I love this project
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Mine takes 23 seconds from power on to connect to my CIFS shares via ethernet.
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I never turn mine off.
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Stinky wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:45 am I never turn mine off.
That's one way to tackle the problem haha!
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Re: How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

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You could rename /etc/init.d/S45bluetooth to /etc/init.d/S35bluetooth.
This way bleutooth starts before networking/wifi and you don't have to wait for it.

They seem to finish around 12s here, but I didnt clock it.
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